When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONMoney is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.
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Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
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He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the most ostentatious; and by religion, which is the most effectual.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
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Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
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He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.
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To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
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Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
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